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Leviticus 16:25

"Then he is to offer up the fat of the sin offering in smoke on the altar,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Atonement;   Offerings;   Scapegoat;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - High Priest, the;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Expiation;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Day of atonement;   Interpretation;   Type, typology;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Expiation;   Fasting;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Scapegoat;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Atonement, Day of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Day of Atonement;   Expiation, Propitiation;   Festivals;   High Priest;   Leviticus;   Reconcilation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Atonement, Day of;   Azazel;   Church;   Clean and Unclean;   Fasting;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Propitiation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Expiation;   Goat;   Veil;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Atonement;   High priest;   Offering;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Priesthood, the;   Worship, the;   On to Canaan;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Atonement, Day of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafṭarah;   Law, Reading from the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
King James Version
And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
Lexham English Bible
And he must turn into smoke the sin offering's fat on the altar.
New Century Version
Then he will burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
Amplified Bible
"And he shall offer up in smoke the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
New American Standard Bible
"Then he shall offer up in smoke the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the fatte of the sinne offring shal he burne vpon the altar.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he shall offer up in smoke the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
Contemporary English Version
The fat from these sacrifices for sin must be sent up in smoke on the bronze altar.
Complete Jewish Bible
(RY: ii, LY: iii) He is to make the fat of the sin offering go up in smoke on the altar.
Darby Translation
And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then he will burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
English Standard Version
And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
George Lamsa Translation
And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn upon the altar.
Good News Translation
He shall burn on the altar the fat of the animal for the sin offering.
Christian Standard Bible®
He is to burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
Literal Translation
And he shall burn as incense the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and burne the fat of the synofferynge vpon the altare.
American Standard Version
And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar.
Bible in Basic English
And the fat of the sin-offering is to be burned by him on the altar.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the fat of the sinne offering shall he burne vpon the aulter.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the fat of the sin-offering shall he make smoke upon the altar.
King James Version (1611)
And the fat of the sinne offering shall he burne vpon the Altar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he shall offer the fat for the sin-offering on the altar.
English Revised Version
And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
Berean Standard Bible
He is also to burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he schal brenne on the auter the innere fatnesse which is offrid for synne.
Young's Literal Translation
and with the fat of the sin-offering he doth make perfume on the altar.
Update Bible Version
And the fat of the sin-offering he shall burn on the altar.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar.
World English Bible
The fat of the sin-offering shall he burn on the altar.
New King James Version
The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
New Living Translation
He must then burn all the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
New Life Bible
He will burn the fat of the sin gift on the altar.
New Revised Standard
The fat of the sin offering he shall turn into smoke on the altar.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, with the fat of the sin-bearer, shall he make a perfume at the altar.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the fat that is offered for sins, he shall burn on the altar.
Revised Standard Version
And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn upon the altar.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then he shall offer up in smoke the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

Contextual Overview

20 "When he has finished purifying the holy place, the Meeting Tent, and the altar, he is to present the live goat. 21 Aaron is to lay his two hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins, and thus he is to put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready. 22 The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land, so he is to send the goat away in the wilderness. 23 "Aaron must then enter the Meeting Tent and take off the linen garments which he had put on when he entered the sanctuary, and leave them there. 24 Then he must bathe his body in water in a holy place, put on his clothes, and go out and make his burnt offering and the people's burnt offering. So he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and the people. 25 "Then he is to offer up the fat of the sin offering in smoke on the altar, 26 and the one who sent the goat away to Azazel must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp. 27 The bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the holy place, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, their flesh, and their dung must be burned up, 28 and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 16:6, Leviticus 4:8-10, Leviticus 4:19, Exodus 29:13

Reciprocal: 2 Corinthians 4:18 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. The brazen altar of burnt offering, and so says Jarchi, on the outward altar; for of the inward (i.e. the altar of incense) it is written, ye shall not offer upon it strange incense, nor a burnt offering, nor a meat offering; and this fat he explains to be what was on the inwards of both the bullock and the goat; and so says Aben Ezra, the fat of the bullock for the sin offering, and the fat of the goat for a sin offering, and also the fat of the kid of the goat, which, was a sin offering for the priest, Numbers 29:11; this fat was burnt at the same time the burnt offerings were offered in Leviticus 16:24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is important, in reference to the meaning of the day of atonement, to observe the order of the rites as they are described in these verses.

Leviticus 16:12

A censer - See Exodus 25:38 note.

The altar before the Lord - i. e. the altar of burnt-offering on which the fire was always burning.

Leviticus 16:14

The high priest must have come out from the most holy place to fetch the blood, leaving the censer smoking within, and then have entered again within the veil. He sprinkled the blood seven times upon the mercy-seat, on its east side (not “eastward”), and then seven times upon the floor in front of it. If the mercy-seat may be regarded as an altar, the holiest one of the three, on this one occasion in the year atonement was thus made for it, as for the other altars, with sacrificial blood.

Leviticus 16:15

Having completed the atonement in the holy of holies on behalf of the priests, the high priest had now to do the same thing on behalf of the people.

Leviticus 16:16

The “holy place” - Here the place within the veil, the holy of holies.

Tabernacle of the congregation - tent of meeting. atonement was now to be made for the tabernacle as a whole. The sense is very briefly expressed, but there seems to be no room to doubt that the high priest was to sprinkle the blood of each of the victims before the altar of incense, as he had done before the mercy-seat within the veil; and also to touch with blood the horns of the altar of incense Exodus 30:10.

That remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness - Compare Leviticus 16:19. The most sacred earthly things which came into contact with the nature of man needed from time to time to be cleansed and sanctified by the blood of the sin-offerings which had been taken into the presence of Yahweh. See Exodus 28:38 note.

Leviticus 16:18

The order of the ceremony required that atonement should first be made for the most holy place with the mercy-seat, then for the holy place with the golden altar, and then for the altar in the court. See Leviticus 16:20, Leviticus 16:33. The horns of the brazen altar were touched with the blood, as they were in the ordinary sin-offerings. Leviticus 4:25, Leviticus 4:30, Leviticus 4:34.

Of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat - Some of the blood of the two victims was mingled together in a basin.

Leviticus 16:21

Confess over him - The form of confession used on this occasion in later times was: “O Lord, Thy people, the house of Israel, have transgressed, they have rebelled, they have sinned before Thee. I beseech Thee now absolve their transgressions, their rebellion, and their sin that they have sinned against Thee, as it is written in the law of Moses Thy servant, that on this day he shall make atonement for you to cleanse you from all your sins, and ye shall be clean.”

A fit man - literally, a timely man, or a man at hand. Tradition says that the man was appointed for this work the year before.

Leviticus 16:22

Unto a land not inhabited - Unto a place cut off, or (as in the margin) a place “of separation.”

It is evident that the one signification of the ceremony of this goat was the complete removal of the sins which were confessed over him. No symbol could so plainly set forth the completeness of Yahweh’s acceptance of the penitent, as a sin-offering in which a life was given up for the altar, and yet a living being survived to carry away all sin and uncleanness.


 
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